Dyse (analytical, objective and unbiased)got to the bottom of UNION BASTARDRY. (And a acquired a taste for bottoms).

Working with Dyson, (the ‘vacuum cleaner’) to his mates is pretty Dicey. 

Saint Tone paid 80 mil to cleanse us of UNION BASTARDRY

We’ve been looking for jobs that Dyson can do in a ‘hands-on” capacity. You see Dyson is ‘the gun’ if you want to do a detailed investigation into ‘Union Bastardy’.  Union bastardry stands in the way of ‘Big Business’. All of us know that’s Un-Australian. That’s why ‘Santas little helper”, ( St Tone of the Abbott) gave Dyson a gig to look into the rotten and systemic corruption of Unions. And Dyson  gave the Unions the once over.  Dyse, (the ‘Vacuum cleaner’ to his mates)  looked forensically into every dastardly deed the Unions had done.  We stood aghasp! Aghasp at the sheer weight of what he uncovered. It was filthy, the stench was overpowering, and at the end of the day Dyson left us with no doubt, the Unions were a disgraceful lot. The trauma of this inquiry had its tragic side effects. Dyson couldn’t keep his hands off sheilahs. Young, middle-aged,  old. Such was the trauma he suffered stoically and alone. Only recently has the cost of his trauma become public. Its a trauma we must all share.   

For the minority of Australians still in a Union, he proved that the Union Super funds provided, decent, equitable and fair service to its member subscribers. Unions weren’t interested in gouging their constituency.  The Union ethos, was corrupted by an ancient spirit of egalitarianism, the right of a fair go, and a deeper sense of community.  Such was the evil taint of “Unionism” 

Dyse followed the Union money trail in uncovering UNION BASTARDRY!

That in a nutshell is why the Unions are a pox on society. Not only do they clamour for fair wages, but they go into bat for little people. Little people who would normally and rightfully be crushed by BIG BUSINESS. Dyson had a handle on it, and his forensic treatment proved once and for all that Unions and Unionism runs counter to everything Lord Rupert of Murdoch seeks to achieve in world domination. But there were bigger fish to fry. 

That’s why we’ve got Dyson working for us on the Australian spy ring now working against the benign dictatorship they call China. Dyse will get to the bottom of this. We know that Australians are naturally cunning, and those poor ol mandarins of the Chinese Commuist party have been spurned from the ‘five eyes’ intelligence network. This is where Dyses’ forensic capabilities will mend bridges, belts and roads. 

Chinese ambassador dirty on the five eyes network deals in Sino Georgian Real Estate on the weekends to stem the tide of UNION BASTARDRY!

They’ve come the un-cooked wonton.They’ve gone so cranky they’re sterilising Uighurs on  the spot just for saying ‘Gday’!  ‘Gday’ is Uighur for; “I’ve had a gutful of Xi, and i’d know where i’d rather be than in an education facility”

Australian gift to China, the “Golden Elastrator”. A different kind of ring.

Uighur’s infected with UNION BASTARDRY queueing up to receive the gift of the “Golden Elastrator”

Dyse knows what’s really goin on.  He’s handy in tight situations. Has a real feel for the issues that are grounded. We’ve got Dyson on the case. Bought him a one way ticket to Beijing and a wad of fake yuan. Only problem can’t get a flight into China, so we set him up with a game of Mahjong, a Confucian Centre calendar  from the University of Queensland and a short wave radio. In no time Dyse found out what was troubling the benign Chinese government. Turns out they’ re running short of elastrator rings for castration of all the Uighur blokes. Dyse knew what to do. Went through the usual channels, and got Twiggy to purchase two hundred million worth of elastrator rings, and donated them, (courtesy of the Aussie taxpayer) to Xi himself, with a gift, “the golden elastrator”. It’s a special elastrator hand-piece, with gold handles and 888 stencilled on the prongs. The added bonus is that it’s got five heads, so you can quintuple the castration all in one go. In China, five is a lucky number. We’re currently working on an eight prong elastrator for the next annual party congress, as a gesture of Sino Australian can-do-ism.  Just to prove that we haven’t competely rooted our industrial capacity through UNION BASTARDRY.

Ambassador to China demonstrating the elegance of the single prong”Golden Elastrator” in stemming ” UNON BASTARDRY’!

It’s saved Australias bacon. We’re off the hook as spies, cos we’re making a contribution to the prosperity of the Communist party in cleansing them of Uighur non-confromists. And for the gift of corona-virus we’ve helped them in a spirit of reciprocity to do to the Uighurs what we’ve been doing to Aboriginal Australians for two centuries. In doing so we’ve smashed the impregnable status of five eyes. And the Uighurs get the double bonus, they’ll have sore eyes, and know they’ve helped in  swapping a spy ring for a rubber ring. Which is good all round. Cos rubber rings are flexible and bounce. Which us more than you can say for the Australian economy post corona.  A Union of sorts?

Incidentally, whats Mandarin for dead cat?

Dyson has offered to re- write the ABC Charter

We at pcbycp are delighted that the ex Murdoch executives who now run the Corporation have come up with some truly imaginative solutions. Solutions that are FINAL.  Initiatives that make REAL money and issues that interest REAL people……. (with money). 

The problem with the ABC for starters is there are no ADS. No product endorsement and no betting channels. The ABC Charter needs re-writing.  

“to provide innovative and comprehensive services which contribute to a sense of national identity, inform, educate, entertain and reflect Australian cultural diversity; to promote the arts; and to broadcast to other countries programs that will encourage awareness and understanding” 

Dyson may compere the muted up-coming ABC Reality TV Series, ” The Night- Stalker”

There is no mention of jobs for mates, sinecures for ex Murdoch executives and a place for Dyson to go, once he’s earnt a reputation that’s a wobble board short of the Rolf Harris. The ABC must be re- nuanced for contemporary Australia.  Show bias, prejudice and practise “Dog whistling’ as a core principle.  Without it, it doesn’t reflect any Australia we know. 

Delighted to hear the new manager of the ABC, talking about additional cost-cutting. The Ultimo Headquarters could be leased out to advertising executives, funds managers or training colleges for recently arrived migrants. And like the universities, establish new revenue streams from selling off assets, sackings, and conversion of facilites to more suitable coal or fossil fuel oriented enterprises. There’s untold real estate potential realised by selling off buildings in desirable locations, and perhaps the entire ABC staff could be replaced by call-centre attendees from the Phillipines, in the Phillipines. 

Clearly this is the vision statement we want from a man with vision. He knows the cost of everything and proves the worth of his other board mates who’ve worked with Lord Rupert of Murdoch.  They knows the value of MONEY. We understand that as a neccesity he must achieve editorial balance. But it begs the question: How much balance is enough?

Dyson working on re- writing the ABC Charter.

The ABC has skewed its operations as a socially progressive platform. This will be abolished. Even now as we write it is pleasing to hear the old videotapes of Bob Santamaria’s, “Point of View” will be restored and re-issued on a new ABC Channel, ‘Bobs 24/7’. This exciting new format will stream non stop into lounge-rooms and confessionals across Australia. But this is just the beginning. 

There are myriad other savings that may be met via a more rigorous approach to de- funding, 

We would like to submit these initiatives to the board, and hope via Sky News and Foxtel a new look ABC might provode relevance and entertaintment at last to the taxpayer. 

1 New ABC uniforms, to further stigmatise the ABC staff as lefty pinko whingers. They shall trial a new pink high viz overall. This uniform will be compulsory and identify to all mining magnates, those with vested interests and kleptocrats that though this journalist may be more difficult to bribe, cower or fear, it can be assaulted or as in other progressive contries, ( Russia, Turkey, Saudii Arabia) liquidated at will. 

2 Sell off ABC archives. Old rubbish. Who gives a witness K. History? Who studies  humanities anyway?

Dyson salary package includes a masseuse, a dresser and a jar of vaseline

3 Robodebt all redundancies.  Put them all onto robodebt, and make them pay for enjoying the luxury of ex-journalistic independence. Except for Tony Jones, who shall duly recieve his AO for starting the intervention, ‘for services to the maintenance of the status quo’. 

4 Source all new appontments form Sky, Fox, or Newscorp.  They do what they’re told and provide ‘infotainment’.

5 Sack the board, appoint Alan Jones as head. Boards are full of dead wood. 

For services to “Dog Whistling”

6 Cancel the “Science Show”, “Insiders”, the “Law Report” and the AM and PM flagships replace with musak and sport. The Federal Governmant HATES science. 

7 Closer tie-ins with gaming, there’s money to be made in sports bet and accredited gaming enterprises to grow the economy

8 Get rid of journalists, replace with celebrities. Celebrities dont worry about ethics, unless they’re fashonable. 

9 Reality TV.  Turn the sackings into a twelve part reality tv show. 

The trialled new ABC Board Uniform

10 Whatever is left to be filled with cooking shows, and shopping shows.

Appoint Alan Jones to write up a new charter of journalistic integrity, send it to Rupert to sign, and find any autocrat, (Hungary, Turkey, USA,China, Phillipines, Nth Korea), to endorse it. 

Reading the new ABC Charter. “Its much sexier than the old one‘, ( Dyson)

With a bit of luck this template will establish the ABC with a wider target audience and fully develop its potential as a window onto what ordinary Australians are deemed to think according to the over- arching principles of Lord Rupert of Murdoch. (Amen)

That’ll learn em

Let’s face it, we loathe and detest Arts Degrees. 

Nothing but TROUBLE!

PM and Dan loathe Humanities. Quite right too!

We at pcbycp applaud the informed decision by the Federal Government to punish students who seek to be indoctrinated by Humanities. For many years we’ve argued that the market is always right. We’ve applauded the despoilation of all living systems and the very life that sustains us on earth, through the insistence that the market knows best. And the market in this country, is predominately the mining industry, and Real Estate. 

Royal Commissions come and go, and though we’re bored to death with deaths in custody and black lives, we know that at the end of the day, the man in the high-viz vest rerpresents the future of Australia. 

By blowing up sacred sites and the de- funding of museums, libraries, and allowing the full scale desecration of cultural artefacts, we will enrich ourselves with cash. And to achieve this, the last thing we want is a corpus of effete beret-wearing, goateed, poonces, talking about philosophy and literature. They stand in the way of PROGRESS!! 

They represent the threat of IMAGINATION!

History is wrong. Plato was dead wrong. Aristotle, not the full bottle.  And ever since, we’ve always been a Pythagoras short of the icoceles. 

That’s why Dan Tehan is to be applauded.  

Dan may not be well read. But he knows how to shove his arm up a dead Ewe’s Bum… (to determine probable cause of death)

He knows nothing about culture.  He knows it’s poofy and effete. That’s why he’s a Minister of the CROWN, and he wants STEM to rule. 

We can only agree, Shakesepeare has done none of us any good.  And if you ask Dostoyevsky, (who the fuck was he you might say?) the last thing he ever did was put a deposit on a housing estate, mined for iron ore, or knew the value of COAL in fucking up poofta-friendly eco-systems. We HATE arty types for putting a window on who we are and what makes us tick. That’s why we applaud BIG-BUSINESS

Questioning is trouble making. 

The question is clear.  There is NO QUESTION!. 

We hate trouble makers!

Rat bags, thinkers!

The only humanities courses we want to see are those practised at the Ramsay Institute. The world is only 6500 years old, and woman was made (badly) in a mans image. 

‘That is an eternal truth’, ( Leviticus Ch 12. ) 

Dan Loves Traditional Astralya. That’s why he hates CLEVER BASTARDS who use WORDS!

Better still deport all humanities types.

For our readerships assistance it’s any one who looks questioning, thoughtful or harbouring anti establishment ideals 

We like computer techs, salesmen, and real estate agents. They are RELIABLE!

No REAL ESTATE Agent ever asked, “ what is life”?

Just ask Twiggy, He’s sold us to China, and our new masters hate loathe and detest thinking types, Whatever the Mandarin for thinker was it’s  has been erased. If you say it in Cantonesee it’ll land you in jail for eight years. 

Black lives matter?  never heard of it.

Dyson loves words. He loves POWER as well. And using his educated hands.

Me too movement?….what the…… go ask Dyson. 

There is no future in thinking. 

Australia’s best ideas are still born, and even if they were let loose, we have the gatekeeper, The CathoIic Boys Daily (The Australian) to ensure that thought will never thwart the good governance of big business and Twiggy, (Courtesy of the Peoples Republic of China).

Dysons Downfall. A love of Literature. Even if it is Hansard and Parliamentary papers.

Its money well spent! Increase the humanities fees by 500 per cent. That’ll learn em. 

Dear reader.

Saint Ira, our sage from the near north performing in the latest University Revue, ” where are my humanities’?

As your recall our sage for the near-north, Saint Ira (late of  Tolmie), had some very sagacious things to say about the state of stately homes in the UK. Those great piles that Evelyn Waugh described  so colourfully in “Brideshead Revisited’. Those great Mansions built upon the blood, sweat and corpses of West Indian and American slavers. He suggested in the emotionally charged dialogue of “Black lives matter”  it would not  be a bad idea to bulldoze the lot and thus cleanse the British isles of its wicked colonial past. And it was suggested by the editor that the same could be done for those homesteads that were built over the ashes of the indigenous Australians who were cleansed from the fertile western district so that wool could be King .

Very upmarket houses in Brighton.

Ira points to the ongoing destruction of stately and less stately homes as an absolute tragedy, a tragedy that pales into insignificance against the wanton destruction and  incalculable cultural wealth lost by the bludgeoning bloody minded mining companies, and suggests its an effing catastrophe,

He writes;

Prince Andrew recommends Brighton for the nightlife and ready availability of nymphettes.. (Sorry wrong Brighton)

Brighton, Victoria has some  houses designed by well regarded architects of the 1920’s, 30’s and fifties.’Developers’  knocked one down recently and built units. Now they are trying to do it again. There are huge local objections and all work has been stopped.These houses are all in terribly fashionable Brighton which naturally houses allsorts of influential people whose seaside vote the pollies worry about.

Convincing ‘influential people’ that the desecration of Aboriginal sacred sites by mining companies is a level of intolerable vandalism  infinitely more important than Brighton’s houses and should be a priority amongst those people who really care about the history of this country.

Future generations will look back on this wilful destruction with absolute horror.. Accept it or not, we are presiding calmly over the wanton destruction of our equivalent of the glorious caves at Lascaux, Egyptian tombs and monuments and Stonehenge.

The dismissive,  troglodyte attitude of our mining companies to anything that might impede the pursuit of profit must be curbed. Successive governments have allowed them to plough through regardless. Just think: are there other (unknown) sites that they have  possibly already destroyed …? Not that they would, of course… they are all honourable men…

The only remedy for this must be fines so massive that  they never do it again.

Now, which caring pollie has the guts to introduce a bill suggesting these massive financial reprimands…?

Government advisor on brilliant Federal initiative to de- fund Humanities from Australian Higher Education.

Sadly, we know this answer to Ira’s question, sadder still, that we’d have liked to ask a leading anthropologist and historian,  but as funding has been withdrawn from humanities based faculties in the latest round of cuts, we are unable to find anyone with the depth of wisdom to provide an answer.

Happy though, that it has been suggested  by the humanities department at Latrobe university, now reduced to a new super department of economics, that the answer is 42.

Douglas Adams.

Tragically,  Douglas Adams aint around to tell us what that actually means.

Bonjour mes amies,

Je suis desolé something went wrong and this is a few days late….

I was going to do a dispatch contrasting the destruction of a significant Aboriginal site in the Pilbara with the bulldozing of Oombulgurri in the Kimberley Region a few years ago. The bulldozing resulted in the destruction of a community’s social fabric. Oombulgurri’s very existence was erased. Which is worse? Was going to be the theme of the Dispatch.
Oombulgurri has this in common with Yuendumu in that it also was subjected to a massacre, the Forrest River massacre in 1926, only three years earlier than the Coniston massacre.

The Eve of Destruction (1965- the Vietnam War, 2020- Black Lives Matter)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doIuh9Q7d4g
plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose – the more things change, the more they stay the same.

But I only got as far as typing the title and deciding on the song, when subsequent events overtook my intention.

The Black Lives Matter movement suddenly took centre stage and resonated in Australia. Just like the photo of Alan Kurdi the Syrian toddler washed up on shore five years ago had a now almost forgotten impact on us all, so too the murder of George Floyd has brought into focus what has been called the Great Australian Silence.

Australia’s Indigenous people are subjected to one of the world’s highest incarceration rates, higher than blacks in South Africa during the Apartheid era and higher than African Americans in today’s USA. Once again nearly everyone in Australia has an opinion: “They can only blame themselves,”, “They lack education,”, “they commit more crimes,”, “they’re all drunks,” “they……”. Note, more often “they” than “we”. Rarely do we look into the mirror Aboriginal Australia holds up to us.

Lucky Dube- Mirror Mirror- See them coming, hear them talk, never believe the word they say…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmGpb1PHYjA

The word ‘police’ appears 96 times in the 205 pages of the latest draft of my attempt at a book. I’m tired of ear-bashing people, I’d rather play you a nice song:

…and the words of the prophets….The Sound of Silence…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgTaIOoXr3s

Not for me to tell you what your opinion should be, I’ll simply ask you to watch the 11 minute video half way down an ABC article which you can find by Googling “ABC numbulwar taser” or at this link:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-10/numbulwar-police-station-aboriginal-man-tasered/12319494

Now form your own opinion, but only if you’ve watched past the first calm few minutes.

The young man found guilty of assaulting the police had gone to the police station to pay a fine.

Meanwhile that virtuoso of the dog-whistle, former Prime Minister John Howard’s legacy keeps surfacing. In 2007, John Howard with his accomplice Mal Brough, sprang the Northern Territory Emergency Response on Remote Aboriginal Australia. Sunday is the 13th anniversary of the Intervention.

This from the book attempt (page 154):

“From memory it was $A45M which was allocated to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to investigate Mal Brough’s alleged ‘paedophile rings’. Despite the AFP coming after the alleged perpetrators armed with Star Chamber Powers under the Crimes Act 1914, not a single case of paedophilia was prosecuted. No more were there paedophile rings in Remote Aboriginal Australia than there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Or reds under the beds in 1950s Australia.”

Only yesterday (12^th June) Scott Morrison, our current Prime Minister, when discussing Indigenous matters in his usual seemingly sensible conciliatory manner, opined that the ‘Gap’ could not be closed without first dealing with: “…. the abuse, sexual violence, alcoholism and drug abuse in indigenous communities….”. If you blinked you would have missed it … there it was again ‘sexual violence’.

So is John Howard , in his retirement, giving dog-whistling lessons?

In 1983 the Warumpi band released their Jailanguru Pakarnu (out from jail) song in the Luritja language. In the video clip the band is seen breaking the law (riding unrestrained in the back of a ute) and if they’d been caught some of them might have ended up going to jail again. Since 1983 policing on remote communities has intensified. In a 2012 study, based on Yuendumu and Lajamanu, I learned that from mid-2006 to 2010 the incidence of driving criminalization increased 250% in the NT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1baOxLwccB8

plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose – only worse.

Community policing has morphed into policing the community…

c’est pas la même

Au revoir,

François

PS- my favourite song from the land of the long white cloud:  (Slice of Heaven)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0pWejAnLUQ

I hasten to add my second favourite NZ song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqWhQHImHGE

In dem old days, kids would reap REWARD for TOIL by working the mills, cheaper than 457 Visa holders. 

Once again, the scribes at pcbycp are “TRENCHANT”.

In the south, they’d start em younger. REWARD for TOIL!

‘What does trenchant mean’? You may ask. It means having a thought that’s terribly deep, bit like a trench. This is what our scribe from the near north does for us. He anchors us firmly inthe ground.  And the ground is the ultimate arbiter of truth. Cos it’s GROUNDED.  That’s why people get buried in the ground, (Unless youre buried at sea) as it’s about as profound a statement of “deadedness” you’ll find. You can’t be half-dead. Just as you can’t have a conflict of interest when you clearly do. That’s why  all the members of the Covid Committee bar one, can’t declare a conflict of interest. They’d rather not go there, cos to put their hand up would be a declaration of a trenchant failure in the system. But one outta six aint bad. What can we expect in these times? It’s more diversity of opinion than Witness K will ever get, and in the end it’ll arrive at the same place. And that is, to screw the taxpayer, and ensure that the latest disaster, will be converted into shareholder billions. Ultimately. For those corporations who cleverly pay no tax. 

But this is an aside. From Ira, comes this gem, which poses the question, what would happen to all the stately mansions built post occupation in the Western District? Could they be converted back to rubble in recognition, that the land, the wealth, and “respectability” was gained through the systematic extermination of a people?  Much closer to home, but worth a look.  Meanwhile, rather than worry about the technicalities they just blow the past away. It’s a cleansing thing. 

Ira writes; 

Manchester, when cotton was KING! There is WEALTH in HARD WORK!

Dear Letters,

With the Industrial Revolution, a whole new class of industrious folk arose in England. Cotton was king, grown in the American South by black slaves, and shipped to Manchester to be processed by white slaves.

In the past, the English aristocracy had measured their wealth by the acre. Now cash from cotton was threatening these certainties. This ill-gotten, arriviste money bought dilapidated stately homes and manor houses and rebuilt them.  Then, having rebuilt them, their new owners had the temerity not only to move in and hire servants,  but they also, god help us, set their sights on becoming that most odious of inventions, the English middle class.

Nowadays Iron Ore is KING! WEALTH for those who ” BUM-SNIFF”, (modern interpretation of wealth in Toil)

Now as I see it, in ‘outing’ the slavers, mere statues are much too small  to bother with.. English stately homes, stained with slavery, are a much more acceptable target. With a decent bulldozer, any  dedicated  BLM person, with a few moment’s practice could probably reduce most Van Brugh stately Rococo masterpieces to a heap of smoking rubble in a few days.And good riddance too, I say!

Those who “BUM-SNIFF” shall reap REWARD!

As for the English middle class themselves, there is little to be done. If Boris Johnson, Dominic Raab  and Michael Gove are held up as shining examples of the breed then surely and sadly, all is lost  already.

Hola,

From pages 63 and 64-latest draft of my attempt at a book:
†Lucy Napaljarri Kennedy was the first Yuendumu resident to be conferred the Order of Australia. That was in 1994.…..Years later, when I had a stay in Alice Springs Hospital, Lucy was down the corridor from where I was. She regularly complained screeching loudly in incomprehensible language. The nurses who treated her like the cantankerous demented old crone she’d become, had no idea that they were dealing with what had been a dignified lady who’d been honoured by the Queen…..

And then this on page 200:
In 2007 Andrew, Peggy and Johnny were awarded the Order of Australia Medal for their pioneering work on the Mt. Theo programme.
Peggy wasn’t too pleased when soon thereafter she was put on Income Management by the Intervention.

Many of you will know the story of the Mediterranean bridge builder:
“See that bridge over there? I built that. And see that other one over there? I also built that. I built many bridges, all over the land. So you think I’m known as Giovanni the Bridge Builder? No sir!
You have sex with one goat and what happens? Everybody calls me Giovanni the goat fucker”

Aretha Franklin’s 1971 version of Bridge over Troubled Waters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7pjMZdcaQI
Stick with this to the end…. The ‘yes I do- whoo’ at 5:24 makes it more than worth it….

The Honourable Bronwyn Kathleen BISHOP Newport NSW 2106 received Order of Australia honours for distinguished service to the Parliament of Australia, to the people of New South Wales, and to women in politics.
I don’t know if Bronwyn built any bridges, but everybody knows her for her $5,000 taxpayer funded helicopter joy ride.

The Honourable Tony ABBOTT NSW received Order of Australia honours for eminent service to the people and Parliament of Australia, particularly as Prime Minister, and through significant contributions to trade, border control, and to the Indigenous community.

You should have heard journalist Amy Mcguire on the ABC’s ‘The Drum’! She rattled off a list of Tony’s so called ‘contributions’ to the Indigenous community and came to the conclusion, with which I vehemently concur, that Tony did not deserve the honour and should give it back.

Tony most certainly did not build any bridges.  He’ll be remembered by everybody as Tony the onion biter.

Chau,
Franklin

PS- for your delectation Ronnie from Botswana- may he rest in peace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTvyHKBuUpQ

Plato’s Republic. Originally printed on mosaic. Each page weighed 14 tons. A weighty tome.

Sebastian Brandts tome.

Within the age of “corona-geddon” comes the realisation for those of us who are not necessarily winners, but aren’t entirely losers, that the world has been corrupted by neo liberalism.  And though politics has been taken over by the requirement for entertainment, and Boris and Donald stand as exemplars of their craft, we drift closer to the shoals, and the lighthouse keeper has done a bunk. Apparently, (this is astounding news) Plato, (Boris is the full bottle on ancient Latin) alluded to all of this in his book V1 of “The  Republic“. And then Sebastian Brant wrote his very own treatise, ” Ship of Fools”  which really got the Reformation going. Then some yank as recently as 2018 (Tucker Carlson) wrote his very own version of “Ship of Fools”, which took a red- hot go at the very luminaries we mentioned in rapture previously.

For SCOMO, the way out of this current crisis is to offer the tradies more cash via the home renovation initiative, (possibly up there with Franking Credits as the single most intelligent initiative of our time), and we look forward to his tome, “Ship of Tools”. There is a rumour about that the impressive leader of the Nationals, Michael McCormick is about to launch his Nation building treatise on waste water management, “Shit from Stools”, but it has been hijacked by Barnaby’s latest tome on meditation, “On  Stools I Shit”.

Barnaby, his very own fool, up ship creek sans paddle

But all of these are “Big READS”! Dull as dog-shit. And not one of the aforementioned will ever read them or take heed, cos they can’t be condensed into Dot-point or power-point. This is the problem with what’s left of western democracy.  For the leadership, (read Management-class and porn merchants) If it aint in Dot-point and cant be sent through to Lord Rupert of Murdoch and converted to FEAR, it’s effing USELESS!

That’s why we stand in unison to celebrate our very own scribe, St Ira of the near north for condensing it all and making some sense, which normal people, (read non-management class) can readily digest. Being digestible is what all good comprehension is about. That’s why we subscribe to the Ill-Read Digest.

Anyway, this is confabulation, so take it from from Ira, He writes……..

Dear Sir or Madam,

It is almost impossible for me to imagine the subconscious, almost permanent fear and anxiety a black person in white society must feel.

The View from Michael McCormacks boat

But there’s a catch here…Murdoch, Bolt and Jones do not, and have never, represented the downtrodden, the dispossessed, or the marginalised.They are and always were the equivalent of Hitler’s propaganda machine. They represent the ruthless face of neo-liberalism., or neo-capitalism, a system of exploitation encouraged by the Chicago School of Economics and hurried along by Reagan and Thatcher. ‘Greed is Good’ has held sway for fifty years and has turned out to be an unmitigated disaster, a wholly unprepared neo liberalism which has killed thousands of people over the last three months.

Ira fishing, before Barnaby and Michael rooted the Murray Darling.

Because we’d never heard of NEV. NEV is POWER PERSONIFIED. He deserves an AWARD!

Queens Birthday. Confused and conflicted?

The simple proposition is, in these times of pandemically induced crisis, WHO AINT? 

We in the editorial department of pcbycp have huge issues just coming to terms with the significance of HUGE ISSUES

No Kidding. This is a POWER-LOOK!

We were going to devote this entire installment to the very important nation-building work being done by the Covid 19 Commission. Those luminaries gathered by SCOMO to provide light at the end of the tunnel. To ensure that from this disaster comes disaster capitalism. (some uncharitable folk have referred to is as ‘Vulture capitalism’). To ensure that massive disruption and unemployment may deliver rivers of gold to select companies. Companies who can find profit from misery. Leading the group, (like Mr Tracey from Thunderbirds) is Nev. Not an ordinary Nev, not even a nifty Nev, but ‘NEV POWER’. 

Nev is  a man of our time. Come to save us. Nev has the power. No one could be more powerful than Nev. No one could be the personification of all consuming un- elected power than Nev. And what does Nev represent? He represents the only power we have in this country. 

This is the POWER LOOK

Not the power of imagination. WE HATE Imagination!!

Not the power of Science.  Our government looks as kindly towards science as Superman did to Kryptonite!

Nor the power of popular appeal, galvanising story telling, and national buidling deeds of inclusive vision which shall capture the collective hearts and minds!

New either learnt the POWER- LOOK from Donald or Mr Tracy!

Nup, Nev represents mining. He worked with Twiggy for years and years. 

Nev knows all about diggin up shit.

He aint interested in science, renewables, or imagination. He’s fucking interested in digging up shit. Nev’s task is to find a way to make his mates rich from ‘Corona- geddon’ via the taxpayer. Nevs plan is Romanov in its breadth and depth.  His vision, to create mega gas pipelines, and hook us all up to big gas projects. And we the taxpayer, can pay for all the infrastructure.  Nev and his mates, like his mates from Transurban, Exxon, and Amazon, can take what they like and laugh all the way to an offshore bank. It’s rent- seeking on a national scale. They’ll be lauded as fucking heroes for saving us from ‘Corona-geddon’. 

Mr Tracey and his team of Thunderbirds saved the world!

Onya NEV!. 

A solution to our current problems with more of the same ol. Cos we hate smart arses, and do- gooders. And while we’re at it we’ll devote a few hundred million to making home owners via the renovator subsidy richer still. That’s code for;  ‘stuff the renters, they don’t vote for us anyway’. 

Tone and Bronny also saved us. That’s why they won an AWARD!

Funny thing, Nev is a bit of witness K.  It’s pretty hard finding what Nev really stands for. Apparently some lefty shit-stirrer has suggested that running a big government response group and still being involved with mining interests is a bit of a conflict of interest. WE say;  “GO GET Witness K’d”. Nev knows what’s good for us, and we needn’t know anything else about him, cos he is a noble private individual. 

Which gets us back to the Queens Birthday honours. No such anonymity for two well deserved recipients, Bronny and Tone. No need to even supply a surname.  Both are paragons of the utilisation of public office for self advancement.  Australians who make us proud. 

If only more of us could be like them, and ensure that the bounty of this wide land is diverted from us by the likes of Nev. To keep us safe. Keep us fearful. Keep us small.  And in our place.

Rolf earnt one also!

God Save the Queen. And a free prize to the first who can answer this simple qustion. Though we understand honours are awarded on merit, and leadership… does it help if you’re a mate of Nev’s?